Trustees to consider funding CHS project

Roach said district officials need several pieces of information
before making any recommendation to the board. Among those are a
new enrollment study and research on the district's funding status.
And because the district allocated $400,000 it would have saved by
closing a school to employee raises, officials must decide how to
make it up.

Carlsbad school district voters passed Proposition P, a $198
million school construction and renovation bond initiative in
November. The projects now include:

- modernizing Carlsbad High School for $86.8 million;

- building a $95.4 million high school on 54 acres at College
Avenue and Cannon Road;

- modernizing Valley Middle School for $9.4 million;

- modernizing Hope Elementary for $4.5 million;

- modernizing Magnolia Elementary for $4.6 million;

- modernizing Kelly Elementary for $3.4 million;

- constructing a $4.9 million permanent classroom building at
Aviara Oaks Middle School to replace portable classrooms there
now.

The district also plans to spend $5 million to improve and
replace aging computers, servers, and other technology
infrastructure in schools across the district. The plan includes a
$7.4 million contingency fund to pay unforeseen costs, construction
and design changes, and other unanticipated costs.

The current estimates assume completion of all projects by 2013.
Extending the construction schedule would cost more as construction
and materials costs escalate through the years.